Indrek Toome

Indrek Toome ( born September 19, 1943 in Tallinn ) is a former communist politician and today businessman in Estonia. He was from 1988 to 1990 last prime minister of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Indrek Toome was born into a working class family. He completed his studies in 1968 as an electrical engineer at the Polytechnic Institute in Tallinn (Estonian Tallinna Polütehniline Instituut, today Tallinn University of Technology ) from.

From 1972 to 1990 Toome had several high posts in the Leninist - Communist Youth Association of Estonia ( Eestimaa Leninlik Kommunistlik Noorsooühing - ELKNÜ ) and the Communist Party of Estonia (ERP ) holds.

16 November 1988 to 1990 Indrek Toome Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Estonian SSR, and thus communist prime minister of Estonia. He headed due to the pressure of the Singing Revolution, a peaceful secession of Estonia from the domination of the CPSU. With the collapse of Soviet rule in Estonia, he handed April 3, 1990 his office the first freely elected prime minister of Estonia after the Second World War, Edgar Savisaar. On January 20, 1991, Estonia regained its state independence.

From 1990 to 1992 was Toome Member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia ( Eesti Vabariigi Ülemnõukogu ), the parliament until the first meeting of the Riigikogu. Since 1992 Indrek Toome has worked as a co-owner of a real estate company. In 1995, he was sentenced to a fine for attempted bribery by the district court Tallinn.

Publications

• From the Life of the Youth Soviet Estonia, Tallinn: publisher Perioodika 1981 ( translation from Estonian, in other languages)